{"id":477,"date":"2017-01-31T09:00:23","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T14:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.juliafreeman.ca\/blog\/?p=477"},"modified":"2017-02-16T16:21:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T21:21:00","slug":"trump-ban-drives-christy-clark-to-refine-b-c-foreign-buyers-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juliafreeman.ca\/blog\/2017\/01\/trump-ban-drives-christy-clark-to-refine-b-c-foreign-buyers-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Ban Drives Christy Clark to Refine B.C. Foreign Buyer\u2019s Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The B.C. business community spent six months lobbying for changes to the province\u2019s foreign home buyer\u2019s tax, <strong>but it was the actions of U.S. President Donald Trump that propelled Premier Christy Clark to promise amendments.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The B.C. government introduced a 15-per-cent property transfer tax on purchases of residential real estate in Metro Vancouver by non-Canadians last July in a bid to cool Metro Vancouver\u2019s overheated real estate market.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The measure was aimed at foreign individuals and entities that were pouring $1-billion a month into residential real estate in the region, <strong>but business leaders immediately called for exemptions on behalf of skilled professionals coming to the province for work.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For the complete press release click\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/british-columbia\/trump-ban-drives-christy-clark-to-refine-bc-foreign-buyers-tax\/article33840585\/\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Credit: The Globe and Mail<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The B.C. business community spent six months lobbying for changes to the province\u2019s foreign home buyer\u2019s tax, but it was the actions of U.S. President Donald Trump that propelled &hellip; [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.juliafreeman.ca\/blog\/2017\/01\/trump-ban-drives-christy-clark-to-refine-b-c-foreign-buyers-tax\/\">read more<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juliafreeman.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juliafreeman.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juliafreeman.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juliafreeman.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juliafreeman.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.juliafreeman.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":484,"href":"https:\/\/www.juliafreeman.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions\/484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juliafreeman.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juliafreeman.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juliafreeman.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}